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“modernity is positivist while post-modernity is relativist; modernity is based on industrial production while post-modernity is based on information flows; modernity generates knowledge through direct experience while post-modernity does so through simulation and modelling; modernity seeks holism while post-modernity celebrates pluralism; modernity is organized around the nation-state while post-modernity is found in trans-national communities; and so on.”
― John Monaghan

“As has often been said, if you want to understand what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. Above all else, what anthropologists do is ethnography.”
― John Monaghan